read_gpickle¶

read_gpickle(path)[source]¶

Read graph object in Python pickle format.

Pickles are a serialized byte stream of a Python object [1]. This format will preserve Python objects used as nodes or edges.

Parameters:	path (file or string) – File or filename to write. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be uncompressed.
Returns:	G – A NetworkX graph
Return type:	graph

Examples

>>> G = nx.path_graph(4)
>>> nx.write_gpickle(G, "test.gpickle")
>>> G = nx.read_gpickle("test.gpickle")

References

[1]	http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html